#naddpod frostwind

[khepribitch]

Listening to episode 44 of NADDPOD (The Frostwind Chapter) and Rust starts mouthing off about Jaina being the warrior in the relationship so she would get the kings hammer got me thinking.... Did king bronzebeard have his daughter Gemma assassinated because she wasn't a warrior , ,,,, so Jaina will bring power to the summer dwarves?????? HUH!!!! And he's probably trying to frame hardwon surefoot for the murder!!!!!!

Let's see if I'm right....

[b1gwings]

god, i love this little fucking weirdo

[lorientours]

Tbh meeting Gemma Bronzebeard was such a fucking twist and a half. Like for the whole 1st 30 eps I thought Jenna was going to be like a normal dwarf woman who broke up w Hardwon because he kept going “watch this!” And utterly failing to climb up walls or because he kept calling himself “the Bastard of Iron Deep” despite probably not being the only dwarfen who didn’t know who his parents were. I expected it to be CRINGEY and LAME (like most parts of Hardwon’s backstory that he knows about tbh).

Instead you find out that his ex was pretty hot and kinda sorta maybe royalty (enough that she was going to marry a well-respected warrior from Frostwind) and most importantly WAS STILL KINDA HUNG UP ON HIM. Hardwon being cool intentionally is like so shocking to me backstory wise I refuse to accept it.

[vethbrenatto]

frostwind dwarves are literally the peak of dwarves. there's nothing better than this. so sorry to literally all other dwarves but murph perfected dwarves here

[hellishfig]

it's very funny to me that (in naddpod) brian murphy credits brennan lee mulligan as his daddy dm, and as the person who introduced him to dwarves as russians

and that's true and correct

but when brennan brought izzy in as a dwarf pc, izzy said "i am a dwarf who is jersey trash" and brennan said "you are correct"

idk where izzy is from, but murph is FOR SURE from new jersey

and as someone who is listening to naddpod campaign one for the first time, i find this incredibly amusing

[kilape]

they r so important to me... (spoilers under cut)

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gemma's assassination killed me!! it was so romantic and then so, SO tragic...good job murph, u bastard (affectionate)...i love torturing myself by thinking about her and hardwon's tender teenage romance

[stardial]

oh mage madness we’re really in it now.

[orionis13]

I need to play dress up dolls with characters i need to draw Outfit rn its terminal

[thebookishwallflower]

Bev’s infected earring of my goodness, the details

This is so good- I have so many ideas for fun clips, if you need ideas @deepblueink2d I got you, oh also if you do read this, have you been listening to skaldova? I’ve been enjoying it so much

✨NADDPOD ANIMATION✨

Hey don't worry gang. No one eats this very cute dolphin in today's Naddpod animation. Don't worry about it :) 🔗"Hardwon DOESN'T eat this very cute dolphin"🔗

[mediumdata]

Comparing Murph vs Brennan as DMs:

In the Frostwind Chapter of Naddpod Campaign one the Boobs arrive at a gastropub. Murph declares there are no Aioli.

In Cloudward, Ho! not only does Brennan allow Aioli but they are a healing item.

[lorientours]

Murph doing Eastern European / Russian voices for the dwarf teens in The Frostwind Chapter has no right to be as funny as it is. Joras and his undying enthusiasm for killing the bootlickers ! His little eyepatch! His desire to die! It was so funny n charming.

[one-little-nerd-stayed-home]

The thing that's truly so funny about Naddpod is the timelines. Like the majority of the Bahumia campaign takes place over... 4-5 months and the only reason I'm putting it that high is that there's a 40 day stretch in the last mmmmmm 20 episodes

I started really noticing this in Frostwind because the entire arc takes place over 3? 4? Days but I'm thinking about it again cause I'm about to start the last Hexblood episode and they have upended the entire power structure of a petty kingdom in six episodes and 2 very long days.

Not sure where I'm going with this but it makes me want to build timelines and chart the number of days per arc and average In-game day/episode ratio

[utilitycaster]

as someone who hasn't quite gotten into naddpod yet (i've listened to the first 4 episodes but it hasn't quite caught my interest plot/character-wise), what are your favorite naddpod moments (spoilers are fine, for me at leas i'm looking forward to experiencing those moments if/when i get to them)

I assume you mean the first campaign - it's been a minute (I'm not a big re-listener due to time commitment, and while wiki/fandom stuff plus a searchable transcript base means I am always refreshing my CR memory I can't say the same about other shows) but just as a heads up it does take them a bit to hit their stride. The Galaderon arc is when it really pops off. Basically enjoy it for being goofy and light for the first 12-ish episodes and expect it to start really hitting.

I'm trying to not be too spoiler-y still but

Meeting Ol' Cobb (Galaderon)

Rise of Thiala (end of Galaderon arc)

Pulling from the Deck of Many Things and getting Balnor (on the way to the Crick)

All of the Crick but especially going into the Elemental Chaos

The mystery elements of Frostwind are top notch; the way everyone is kind of an asshole is frustrating but it does give us "fuck you, I love you, eat a rat" so all is not lost. This is also when the party starts making jokes about Kid Cudi's Pursuit of Happiness which tickled me especially for some reason.

Entire Feywild arc is good but meeting Alanis is extremely fun and the Queen Ezra fight is one of my favorite D&D fights of all time.

DEADEYE, PLAYED BY BRENNAN LEE MULLIGAN. (Shadowfell weird west is PEAK.)

Jvliin ft dubious Kiwi accent

Literally once you're in the Feywild it's all killer no filler from there actually and you probably don't need more encouragement, but meeting Mavrus, meeting Ren and by extension Murph's Snob Voice, meeting Lucanas, and STARSPAWN are the highlights

Pendergreens shows up in the Shadowfell but his stuff in the Hell arc is truly the best shit in the endgame.

Beverly and Erlin

Final combat again one of my favorite D&D fights of all time

[operationslipperypuppet]

Hi! Do you have any fave naddpod eps for when you need cheering up? Having a hard time atm and could do with revisiting some episodes, but I don’t know which ones to pick. Thank you!!

ooh interesting. hope you feel better soon!

in terms of main feed eps i’ll say the bananksgiving one shot, frostwinds mandatory celebration of maximum luminosity, the loud libraries baggin’ it with balnor, the saving gemma bronzebeard liveshow, and the trinyvale merry metal mayhem two shot or the proposal one shot. actual episode episodes are something i return to at random less, but im a sucker for c3e29: crown of dreams (shocking, i know), c3e22: the ol’ crick feels like coming home, c2e37: the lord scythe is a good laugh, i like to listen to c2e41: cerenysus from about the 2:10 mark to the end bc it gets you the whole ritual and then the rest, c1e100: heart of the world is a really fun one to revisit to me, as is c1e99: one big bed (if you’re ready for some devastation lmao), and of course c1e70: reborn. episode of ever reborn.

patreon eps for a bonus round, all the ones i mentioned in this ask but also (and i can’t believe i forgot it) the animorphs wiki wander. the second half of pillars of pentagarn is also great.

[elliesgaymachete]

should i get back into naddpod? i lost interest after tales from the crick arc but i had only just started frostwinds so i probably just wasn’t invested in the next arc yet 🤔